The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.
Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.
It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.
I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.